AN APPROACH TO THE POLICY OF URBAN DEVELOPMENT
试论我国城市发展方针

On the background of the planning economy and in the urban-rural separation system with a development model of heavy industry bias,China preferred to control large cities and to develop small cities.In 1980's the government of China outlined the urban development policy:"to control large cities,to moderately develop medium-sized cities,and to actively develop small cities." However.the actual development has been quite different from the demands of the policy:large cities and small towns have developed rather fast,but medium-sized cities have developed slower.Analyses have indicated that urban developing prospect cannot rely on urban scale.Moreover,the demands of the present Policy do not correspond with the development of market economy in the period of opening and reforming.It does not fit the national conditions of limited land and large surplus agricultural labour forces.Therefore,the policy of urban development should be adjusted.The ideas suggested include:To develop large and medium-sized cities with the improvement of urban modernization,and to set up urban feedback functions to regulate the industrial and population capacities by the means of tallying the value law of market economy.To develop small towns actively and rationally throught the advance of their planning and management.The quality of living and investment conditions of small towns should be improved to form a centralized distrbution of rural industry.On account of obvious regional disparities in China,urban development should follow different mdels in different regions so that urban expansion and distribution can correspond to special regional conditions and economic development.